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Eskov Ivan Yegorovich

Rank: First Sergeant. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Ivan is my great-grandmother's brother, he had no direct heirs. After finishing 8th grade, he started to work on a collective farm. He refuels tractors before they went out to the fields. He was very active, cheerful, conscientious and caring not only towards his family, but also to everyone around him. He was very fond of his mother and grandmother, and played a lot with the younger children. When the war began, he came to the military enlistment office to go to the front as a volunteer, but he was left at the military enlistment office to draw up the documents of conscripts, where he safely entered himself in. After leaving his native village and graduating from the school of young commanders at the age of 19, he went to the front. In May 1942, in a battle on the Central front, the commander of the rifle platoon division, Ivan Yegorovich, was wounded. He wrote a letter home that everything was going well, he was recovering quickly and would soon be in line to liberate his Homeland from the Nazi invaders. After recovering in the hospital, he was sent to the Stepnoy front, participated in the battles on the Kursk bulge, crossed the Dnieper river, and as part of the 1st Belorussian front he participated in operation “Bagration’ to liberate Belarus. In 1943, he joined the party and became a Communist. He liberated Bobruisk, Baranovichi, Slutsk, Minsk, Rogachev, Zhlobin, crossed the Berezina, Vistula, and Narew rivers, and liberated the Polish cities Chelm and Lublin. On September 4, 1944, acting as part of a tank landing, Sergeant Eskov was one of the first to overcome the Narew river, near the Drozdow river (Poland), and with a group of fighters captured the enemy's trench, undermined the firing point that shelled the crossing, so at the cost of his life he completed the combat task. Ivan was buried in the village of Grodno, Bialystok Voivodeship (Poland). For courage and bravery in battle, he was awarded of two medals "For Combat Service", the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Lenin. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 24, 1945, the assistant platoon commander of the 1348th rifle regiment, Communist Sergeant Ivan Yegorovich Eskov, was awarded of the title the Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. Petukhov secondary School, where I studied, is named after our hero Ivan Yegorovich Eskov. We also hold an Intercity youth tournament in Greco-Roman wrestling among young men in Petukhovo, dedicated to the memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Yegorovich Eskov. In Kurgan, near the "Eternal flame", there is a memorial plaque with the names of heroes of the Soviet Union who lived in the Kurgan region. So there is mixed initials of our great-grandfather Ivan Egorovich Eskov written as Eskov E. I.

Episkoposov Gurgen Matveevich

Rank: Lieutenant. Corps: Artillery. My grandfather – Bishoposov Gurgen Matveyevich, was born on January 15, 1922 in the village of Kushchi in the Khanlar district of the Azerbaijan SSR. Nationality: Armenian. He graduated from the ten-year secondary school in Tbilisi in 1938. After school, he came to Moscow to enter the University. In Moscow he met my future grandmother. In 1940, on November 25, their son, my father, was born. After the beginning of the war in July 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the artillery school. He began to fight in March 1942 after an accelerated graduation from school as a commander of a fire platoon with the rank of Lieutenant. He fought on the front line all through the war. He was wounded and concussed, but after being cured in hospitals, he returned to the ranks. He passed the battle path from Moscow to Germany. For courage and heroism in the battles with the Nazis, skilful leadership of his units-a battery of 76-mm guns, the destroying of enemy personnel and equipment, he was awarded of government awards: - the Order of Alexander Nevsky, - the Order of the Red Star, - the medal "For the Capture of Konigsberg". Fighting since November 1944 as part of the 1st Belorussian front, and since March 1945 as part of the 2nd Belorussian front, he was awarded of commendations by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Stalin: - 27.01.1945 for personal participation in the breakthrough of a powerful long-term defense in the area of the Masurian lakes; - 07.03.1945 for excellent combat actions to capture of Stargrad; - 12.03.1945 for excellent combat actions to capture of Tchev. Remembering the days of fighting, my grandfather told my father, and he told me, one episode from his combat life: "Fighting on the base-area of the Curonian spit in the area of East Prussia, my foreman I. Arkhipov and I found ourselves in a critical situation: during the battle, almost all my soldiers were killed and almost all the guns were broken. German tanks were moving towards us. The panorama was broken on the remaining main gun. I ordered Arkhipov (he was an unusually strong man physically) to take hold of the gun frame and turn the guns left and right. I aimed the gun through the barrel. During the battle, we knocked out several tanks. We would, of course, be in trouble, but then our infantry and tanks arrived. The German tanks turned back." For this fight, my grandfather was awarded of the order of Alexander Nevsky. He was awarded of the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". He finished the war in Eastern Pomerania with the rank of Captain and the position of Deputy chief of staff of an artillery regiment. He was discharged in 1947. In 1950, he graduated from the VZYUSH (higher correspondence law school) of the Ministry of justice of the RSFSR with honors. He was sent to work in the Prosecutor's office of the Moscow region. In 1953, he was repressed under the infamous article 58. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison camps. In 1955, he was released from prison. His case was reviewed and dismissed for the absence of elements of a crime in his actions. In 1996, he was rehabilitated by the Presidium of the Supreme court of the USSR. After his release, he worked as a senior laboratory assistant in the Department of flaw detection at the Research Institute of Automotive Industry, and as a record keeper in the Podolsk archive of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Working in the archive, my grandfather found award documents about awarding him of the order of the Patriotic war 2nd Class. For unknown reasons, the award did not take place. Being a modest person, my grandfather did not inform the archive management about the award. He retired in 1982. Old wounds and contusions caught up with the warrior and on January 18, 1988, the grandfather passed away. He was buried on the territory of the old crematorium (Donskoy monastery) in Moscow. The family keeps all the award documents of the grandfather.

Eroshin Kuzma Markovich

Rank: Military Engineer. Corps: Engineering troops. Unit: 7th Panzer division. Kuzma Markovich Eroshin was born on October 29, 1912 in the village of Kushchapino in the Kadomsky district of the Ryazan region. Graduated from 5 classes, after finishing school he studied to be a driver. From November 1937, Kuzma Markovich worked as a foreman for the repair of automobile and military vehicles. A military ID card was issued to Eroshin by The Kadomsky district military Commissariat of the Ryazan region on December 26, 1947. On October 4, 1942, Kuzma took the military oath under the 7th tank battalion. Eroshin K. M. participated in the Patriotic war and subsequent military operations to protect the USSR as a member of the 141st tank division as a Brigadier for the repair of automobile and military vehicles from June 25, 1941. The 141st Panzer division was formed on September 1, 1941 in Rzhev on the basis of the 110th Panzer division. In early September, the brigade participated in the offensive operation in the Starodub direction in 20 km to the west from Trubchevsk as part of General Ermakov's mobile group. Then during September 1941 he participated in local counter-offensives on Shostka and Yampol. It was defeated during the Orel-Bryansk operation (September 30-October 23, 1941) and disbanded in December 1941. From August to September 2, 1945, Eroshin K. M. served in the mobile repair plant No. 1 as a foreman for the Assembly of tank engines. During his military service, he repaired many combat vehicles of the Soviet army. Often the repair of automobile and military equipment had to be done under enemy fire. Kuzma was awarded of many awards for his participation in the Great Patriotic war. Awards of my great-grandfather: - the Order of The Great Patriotic War 2nd Class" a medal "For Combat Service", medal "For Victory over Japan", medal "Twenty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945", medal "Thirty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945", medal "Forty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945" medal "60 years of the armed forces of the USSR". In peacetime, Kuzma Markovich worked as a firefighter. In his spare time Eroshin K. M. spent time with the family and built a house. Often on weekends, he went hunting, and also liked to collect mushrooms and herbs, from which he later made various medicines. Kuzma Markovich Eroshin died in 1985

Ershov Alexander Alexandrovich

Alexander Alexandrovich Ershov was born on October 11, 1916 in the village of Abrosievo in the Kostroma region in a peasant family. The father brought up children in strictness, taught them to work from an early age. Alexander grew up as a lively, inquisitive boy. After finishing school, he entered factory school in Kostroma. After graduating from the factory school, he worked in Melekess in the Ulyanovsk region at the mill as a milling machine operator. He wanted to study further to become a master, but all his plans were confused by the sudden outbreak of war. Their group of workers was sent to Kuibyshev (Samara) to the factory No. 35. The Plant of the aviation industry No.150 was relocated from Stupino, Moscow region in Kuibyshev. The factory produced propellers for aircraft. A. A. Yershov worked here as a milling machine operator. From the memoirs of A. A. Yershov: "The war began. We, the factory workers from Melekess, were ordered to Kuibyshev to the factory No. 35. We got there on our own: sometimes by hitchhiking, more often on foot. There was no factory as such. There were not enough places for many machines. A large amount of equipment stood in the open air. During the day we worked in daylight, and at night-in the dim light of the bat lamps. It was a difficult time. No matter how many propellers were supplied by the company for IL-2 and PE-2 aircraft, the front demanded more and more. We didn't leave the factory for weeks and did everything we could to win." A. A. Yershov had a reservation, but he was eager to go to the front. Two of his attempts were unsuccessful. He and his friend were returned from Syzran by the chief. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 5, 1945, Alexander Yershov was awarded of the medal "For Valorous Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". After the end of the war, A. A. Yershov continued to work in the unit No. 11 of the factory No. 35. He was repeatedly awarded of medals, certificates of honor, and commendations. His portrait any time was on the Honours Board of the factory. After the war, he married Tolstova (Yershova) Vera Semyonovna, who spent the entire war working in the unit No. 11 of the factory No. 35 as a milling machine operator. Their machines were next to each other. After working for many years as a machine operator, he retired from the same unit number 11 of the Aggregate plant (former factory No. 35) in 1985. Together with his wife, he brought up two daughters, two granddaughters, two great-granddaughters and a great-grandson. Alexander Alexandrovich was invited to school, where he was able to tell in simple words about the great feat of the participants of the Labor front.

Esikov Ivan Dmitrievich

Rank: Private First Class. Corps: aviation Division: 54th bombing aviation of Oryol division. Ivan Yesikov was drafted into the Red Army in 1939 at the age of 22. He left his wife and little daughter at home. He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). In 1941, he was registered in the 714th Airfield Service battalion, as a driver. From 1945 to 1947, he served in the military unit: 146th Separate Aviation technical battalion, as head of the oxygen station. He participated in many military operations, was awarded of medals, and participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Hungary. He returned home in 1947, where his wife and daughter were waiting for him. After that, my grandparents had three more daughters. Difficult conditions during the war, lack of sleep, rest, food had a bad effect on the health of my grandfather, he was very ill and passed away very early. He was only 46 years old. It is impossible to imagine combat flights of aircraft without the work that was performed by the personnel of the airfield service battalions in providing combat missions for the glorious pilots of the long-range aviation. Airfield Service battalion worked with a huge mass of ammunition, mostly bombs from fifty kilograms to one ton. Ammunition was delivered by several dozen wagons a day. They had to be unloaded, put in proper order, and brought to the aircraft parking places with three or four rounds of ammunition each. During the battles for Voronezh, Stalingrad, the Kursk bulge, and the Leningrad front, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers were literally physically exhausted, without sleep or rest, and provided combat sorties for ships in any weather. Ships that returned from their first sortie were refueled at the start and bombs were hung there. Vehicles, because of the deep snow, brought ammunition only to the sides of the airfield, they could not go further. The bombs were unloaded directly on the snow, from where the soldiers carried one two hundred-and-fifty kilogram bomb to the planes on sledges or skis in the deep and loose snow. There were not enough people, the volume was not controlled, and then the pilots, throwing off their overalls, also helped soldiers. Their work was not in vain. During this period, the first of ten Stalinist strikes was carried out… During the battle of the Kursk bulge, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers did not have enough 24 hours a day. During the day, they prepared planes, and at night they went to the combat guard. At night, the Germans bombed the airfield, scattered mines, these mines could blow up planes returning from a combat mission, and before they arrived, it was necessary to clear the runway of mines and fill in the craters. This was done again by soldiers and officers of the Airfield Service battalion. 1944-1945. The Airfield Service battalion No.714 served two air regiments at the same time on airfields: "Stronibaby "(Lviv) and "Melets " (Rzeszow) air hubs, in addition, provided significant assistance to other units in servicing the air regiments of the 4th Air Corps.

Lysenko Alexey Andreevich

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nizhny Baskunchak village, Astrakhan region. DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1922. DATE OF DEATH: 17.01.1942 HISTORY: Rank: Sergeant. Essay by the great-grandson of Alexey Andreevich's sister: I want to tell you about my great-grandfather, my mother's grandfather, Alexey Lysenko. He was born in 1922, in the village of Nizhny Baskunchak. When the war began, he was 18 years old and in June 1945 he was called up to the army. Her parents and two younger sisters, Maria, who had just finished school, and Praskovya, who was in the eighth grade, stayed at home. Once at the front, my great-grandfather fought in the village of Myasnoy Bor near Veliky Novgorod, in the 2nd shock army. Myasnoy Bor is a tragic page of our Fatherland and the history of the great Patriotic war. From the very beginning, as soon as Leningrad was under siege, steps were taken to liberate the city on the Neva river from the enemy's siege. In January 1942, the troops of the Volkhov front launched an offensive operation. The 2nd shock army was the most successful. On January 17, it broke through the defenses in the area of Myasny Bor. At the time of the attack, the forces were unequal. Every meter was given at the cost of huge losses. The enemy pulled 6 fresh divisions to the Luban-Chudovo railway. The attacks of our troops were repelled by a hurricane of enemy fire, the artillery was unable to suppress it. On January 17, 1942, trouble knocked on my great-grandfather's house. His parents and sisters were informed that Alexey was missing in action. Until the end of the war, they still had hope that he was still alive. But many years passed, and the war ended, and there was no news from him. The sisters, Maria and Praskovya sent requests to the archive of the military enlistment office, where he was sent to serve. Only in the 90s they got the answer. Volunteers who conducted excavations in forests and swamps, in those areas where fierce battles took place, found many medallions. Many of the dead were reburied in a brotherly burial place of the Meat Bora. Some of them were with documents, which was reported to relatives. Among them Alexey was. Great-grandmothers, having learned about it, went to the place of his burial. More than 15 years have passed since the great-grandmothers are no longer alive. But every May 9, we go to the Victory square and lay flowers at the monument where the name of my great-grandfather and many others who died in this terrible war are carved.

Levchanov Nikolai Vasilievich

PLACE OF BIRTH: Babushkin city of Buryat-Mongolian ASSR. DATE OF BIRTH: 17.04.1927. DATE OF DEATH: HISTORY: Rank: Red Army Soldier. Corps: Signal Troops. After seven years school, he graduated from the factory school, receiving the profession of an assistant driver. In 1942, at the age of fifteen, he ran away from Ulan-Ude, where their family lived, to the front. It is possible that he applied to the military enlistment office in the Saratov region, where his aunt lived. In his military ticket the year of birth is 1923, and in his passport – 1927. According to the stories, he served in the infantry as a signalman, carried out assignments to restore broken communications. He knew Morse code, which he taught me in my childhood. He was wounded twice. The first time he was wounded in the thigh. After the hospital he went again in the front line. The second serious wound was received in 1945 at the end of the war. He was wounded in the head with damage to the bones of the occipital part, was contused. He was in a hospital somewhere near the Western border, for a year from 1945 to 1946. In the hospital, he learned to walk again. At the first time he communicated with doctors in Morse code, then he learned to write with his left hand, then with his right hand, then he learned to speak. He was discharged from the hospital as a disabled person of group II. For several years he wore a leather helmet on his head to protect the back of his head until the wound was overgrown with cartilage. In the spring of 1946, he accompanied his relative from the hospital to his home in the village of Khrenovoe in the Voronezh region, who had no leg, because there were not enough nurses to accompany the wounded to their place of residence when they were discharged from the hospital. In this village, he met my mother and married her at the age of 19. In 1947, just on my father's birthday, my brother was born, and in 1951 I was born. Now I am very sorry that I did not ask my father enough about his military campaigns. As a child, I had enough of the little information that my father told me to consider him a hero! In 1974, my parents divorced, and my father left us and gone away. Unfortunately, communication with him was interrupted. In 1998, my brother went to visit relatives in his father's homeland and wrote in a letter that he had visited his father's grave in his homeland. I don't know exactly when my father died or where he was buried. But unfortunately, my brother Vladimir, after the second letter in which he wrote that he wanted to return to his homeland in the village of Khrenovoe, went missing. Communication with him was interrupted. Since 1998 I don't know anything about him.

Levin Nikolay Andreevich

Levchenko Alexey Eremeevich

PLACE OF BIRTH: Krasny village, Ladozhskiy district, Krasnodar territory. DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1904. DATE of DEATH: 22.10.1941 HISTORY: Rank: Lieutenant. Corps: Ground Forces, Air Forces (except naval aviation), the coast guard, troops of the NKVD, the border guards. Division: 353rd Dneprodzerzhinsk Rifle Red Banner Division. "On Wednesday, October 22, 1941, in the morning, after a short but powerful artillery preparation, the enemy launched an offensive on the front of the 353rd rifle division and tried to capture Crimea village. The report of the division's political Department noted that " despite massive mortar fire, all enemy attacks were repulsed with heavy losses for them." Small groups of motorized infantry and tanks operated in other areas. All attacks by the 13th Panzer division and the SS brigade “Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler” were repulsed. But the Soviet troops also suffered losses. In two days, they lost three 45-mm, five 76-mm anti-aircraft guns and two 120-mm mortars. Before nightfall, the enemy fired heavy artillery and mortar fire at the battle formations of the 68th Cavalry, 353rd and 343rd Rifle Divisions. The units moved out of the reserve for the counterattack (the 1155th Regiment, the 3rd Battalion of the 1149th Regiment, and the 81st Separate Tank Battalion), they managed to take up their initial position for the offensive only in the afternoon. At 3 p.m the infantry and tanks launched a counterattack and three hours later drove the enemy to the heights 78.8 and 102.4. Heavy enemy fire and darkness stopped their further movement, not allowing them to fully complete the task" (from the book "FROM DANUBE TO MIUS: A JOURNEY OF THREE AND A HALF MONTHS"). In this battle, Lieutenant Levchenko Alexey, who led his unit in one of the attacks, was killed by a sniper's bullet (from the story of a survivor who handed over his belongings and commander's watch to his wife, Olga Andreevna). "On the night of October 22-23, the command of the 56th Separate Army, after analyzing the situation, decided to regroup forces and withdraw them to a new defensive line. This made it possible to consolidate the battle formations in the Western direction. By morning, three lines of defense of Rostov-On-Don were created: 1) from Shakhov hamlet to Khapry station; 2) on the North-Western and Western outskirts of the city and in the city itself; 3) along the southern bank of the Don river. On October 23, the enemy made several more attempts to break through the defense of the 56th Separate Army in the 343rd and 353rd Rifle Divisions with a Tank Battalion and 2-3 Motorized Infantry Battalion. All these attempts were repulsed by artillery, mortar, and machine-gun fire of Soviet troops. Having met stubborn resistance from the Soviet troops, the enemy suspended its offensive, losing up to 50 tanks as a result of the fighting on October 20-23, 1941. Parts of the 56th Separate Army also suffered significant losses in manpower and weapons during the three days of fighting. The 343rd Rifle Division lost 183 commanding officers and 3,109 red army soldiers (30 percent of the staff). The 353rd Rifle Division lost 55 commanders and political workers and 1,076 red army soldiers (10% of the staff). The 68th Cavalry Division lost 7 commanders and 48 soldiers in the last decade of October, while the 7th Armored Train Division lost 4 commanders and 34 soldiers. Thus, the total losses of only three divisions and crews of armored trains exceeded 4,500 people. "THE FATE OF THE "FIRST STRIKE" ARMY: HISTORY AND MEMORY": "The first year of the war was a difficult time for the Red Army. The personnel army that was supposed to serve as a reliable shield for the Soviet state and which was assigned the task of "defeating the enemy with little blood on its territory"suffered huge and seemingly irreparable losses. But the enemy triumphed early. According to the famous American historian D. M. Glantz, " the Red Army rose like a Phoenix from the ashes, and managed to inflict unprecedented defeats on the vaunted Wehrmacht." This required significant changes not only in the war, but also in the organization of the armed forces of the USSR, which were expressed, in particular, in the creation of new military associations and formations of the operational-strategic level. One of them was the 56th army, which began its combat path near Rostov-on-don in 1941. Like other new armies, it had to master military skills in practice, directly during the battles. Combat training became really combat, the war took a long time, and the overall victory was still very far away."

Lidgi-Goryaev Timofey Djanaevich

PLACE OF BIRTH: the village of Deligerka (Kura), Lagansky ulus. DATE OF BIRTH: 23.02.1922. DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Rank: Red Army Soldier. Unit: 159th Rifle Division (1st Formation). Many people from Lagani (Republic of Kalmykia) know and remember the veteran of war and labor Timofey Djanaevich Lidgi-Goryaev. He was born in the Caspian region, in the village of Deligero (Kura), Lagansky ulus on February 23, 1922. At the age of fifteen, before the war, he began working at a fish cannery as an accountant. Then the war came began. Most of the male population of Lagani went to the front. Timofey Dzhanaevich was sent to build a railway along the line of the military enlistment office. Together with many fellow countrymen, he built the Kizlyar-Astrakhan railway. They worked tirelessly day and night. The work was very hard: they were hammering the frozen ground, carried clay on stretchers, but everyone was thinking about the victory that was still so far away. With this faith they overcame all adversity. August 1942. Military operations unfolded on the territory of Kalmykia. In September 1942 Timofey Dzhanaevich was drafted into the army by the Lagansky district military commissariat. So he was recalled from the construction of the railway. He was assigned to the 3rd company of the 1st Battalion of the 159th Separate Rifle Brigade of the 28th Army. In just 2 months, he learned how to shoot a gun. The very first battle was at Hulhuta (Republuc of Kalmykia). Then he released Elista. During the most difficult days of the battle for Stalingrad, the he defended tractor factory. After the liberation of Stalingrad, he participated in the battles for Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Donbass, fought for the Crimea, stormed the "Turkish wall". In one of the battles, he was wounded, he was treated in a hospital in Krasnoarmeysk. After recovering, he was sent to the 4th Ukrainian front. Red army soldier Lidgi-Goryaev T. D. served in the unit No. 10984-a, which liberated the land of Ukraine. Siberia... Deportation in 1943. This is one of the tragic events in the life of the Kalmyk people. But they had to live and survive to prove that the people of Kalmykia are loyal to their Homeland. Before the war, my grandfather, working at a fish processing plant, mastered the profession of an accountant. In Muynak, where he was during the deportation, he worked as an accountant at a fish canning plant. Timofey Dzhanaevich had a lot of awards: "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Valorous Labor", “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war"," 30 years of Victory in the Second World War"," Medal of Zhukov", Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class" and others. Despite on his war wounds, after returning to his Homeland Timofey actively began to restore the economy of the Republic, worked as a senior accountant at the Krasny Moryak collective farm, at the Lagansky fish factory. In 1993 when he retired he was appointed member of the Council of Elders of the city Lagan, helped to find out the names of soldiers who died during the war, missed or died in Siberia and put their names in the Memorial Book. He collaborated with the newspaper "Primorskie izvestiya" and wrote about the veterans. Having been widowed early, Timofey Dzhanaevich showed his father's heroism-he devoted his whole life to brought up five children, giving them an education. In 2000, he died of old war wounds. The memory of Lidgi-Goryaev Timofey Djanaevich will live forever.

Lebedev Matvey Stepanovich

Rank: Political Officer. Corps: Armored and mechanized troops. Lebedev Matvey Stepanovich was born in 1905 in a peasant family. Place of birth: the village of Doenkino, Makaryevsky district, Kostroma province (now Semenovsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region). His father worked as a rural paramedic, his mother was a peasant. From 1917 to 1920, he was engaged in the farm. From July 1920 to February 1921, he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army as a walker of the 202nd Rifle Regiment in Belebey, Ufa province. From January 1923 to February 1925, he worked in a horticultural and livestock farm at the Kudma station, Nizhny Novgorod province. In 1924, he joined the Komsomol, from February 1925 until calling up to the Red Army he worked as a shepherd in the village of Gorevo, Varnavinsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province. From September 1927 to December 1929, Lebedev Matvey Stepanovich was a Red Army soldier, a private of the 5th Company, 1st Regiment of the Convoy Guard, then transferred to the 48th Rifle Division in Tver, where the future Marshal of the Soviet Union and outstanding military chief A. M. Vasilevsky served. On October 3, 1929, while serving in the Red Army, Lebedev was accepted into the party by the Party Commission of the 48th Rifle Division and became a member of the AUCP. From 1930 to 1931, he was a Chairman of the Settlement Association in the village of Ilino-Zaborskoe, Nizhny Novgorod province, an active participant in the formation of Soviet power in the village. Since January 1931, he was a cadet of the Regional Soviet Party School in Vyatka, (Kirov ) Nizhny Novgorod region. Since November 1931, he was a Chairman of the Seminsky village Council, Koverninsky district, Gorky region. Since August 1933, Matvey worked as a Chairman of the Naumovsky collective farm. From August 1934 he was an appointed head of the special unit of the District Executive Committee in the village of Kovernino, Nizhny Novgorod region. On June 22, 1941 the enemy treacherously attacked our Soviet Homeland. In 1942, Lebedev Matvey Stepanovich goes as a volunteer to the front of the Great Patriotic war, leaving his family at home: his wife, daughter and four sons. In September 1942, according to the Directive of the People’s Commissariat in the Gorky region, the 45th mechanized brigade was formed in the Balakhninsky district. M. S. Lebedev, is enlisted in this brigade as the political officer of the 2nd Motorized Rifle Battalion. The fate of my grandfather is inextricably linked with the 45th mechanized brigade. As part of the 45th Mechanized Brigade, political officer M. S. Lebedev passed his combat path from the Surovikino station, Stalingrad region, to Tatsinskaya station, Rostov region. On January 9, 1943 in a battle with German tanks, while repelling an enemy counterattack in the area of Krylov farm and Bobovnya farm, Rostov region, political officer of the 2nd Mechanized Battalion, 45th Mechanized Brigade, 5th Mechanized Corps, 5th Tank Army, South-Western front, Lebedev Matvey Stepanovich, died a heroic death. He was buried in a mass grave in Krylov farm, Tatsinsky district, Rostov region.

Loginov Boris Vasilyevich

PLACE OF BIRTH: Panetaevka village, Panetaevsky district, Gorky region. DATE OF BIRTH: 23.12.1925. DATE of DEATH: 26.11.2014. HISTORY: Rank: Corporal. Corps: Armored and Mechanized troops. My father, Boris Loginov, was born in the Gorky region in 1925 in a village. His father and mother were typical Soviet people. They had six children, but they rushed to work schools to study in order to push five-year plans forward…My grandfather headed a state farm, then a timber yard for exporting wood abroad. Everything for the country, nothing for yourself. He lived his entire life in Bryukhovetskaya, where he worked at a fish factory. His son, my father Boris, also spent his youth here. He, unlike his parents, did not want to study for a long time. Together with his uncle Zhenya, who was a year older than him, and Volodya, the son of the Director of the fish factory, he went not to school, but to the river, where they had their own boat. At night, they cought fish and crayfish, by the way, my father loved fishing until his old age, sat by the fire, dreaming of traveling. Who could have known that the peaceful life of bryukhovets dreamers would end so quickly and terribly? As soon as they entered the driver's course, the war began. My father couldn't finish the course. His uncle Zhenya was taken to the front, and soon he was killed. During the evacuation of the fish factory, Boris and Vladimir, two newly drivers (there had certificates of training...) had to drive the old "lorry" to the "safe place". Then they handed over the lorry to the military in Tuapse, got a cart… Then they wandered around Central Asia, working at a military factory. And finally my father was drafted to the front. Loginov Boris Vasilyevich was in the 281st Rifle Regiment attached to the 60th Tank Army during the offensive after crossing the Dnieper river. For two and a half months the regiment did not leave the battle. And the youngest soldier of the fourth platoon in the reconnaissance company almost got used to what a person can't get used to – war. For two and a half months they did not know what a bed, a bed, their life-jackets were frozen to the ground at night, when the intelligence men lay for hours in front of the German positions, looking for a passage in them. And there was a night when my father's entire company was killed, only two of them were left…He did not yet know that this was so, the intelligence men retreated to the ravine together, lay down in front of him in the dark, fired back. And at dawn, when Boris Loginov raised his head, he saw that there were only corpses around him. But German soldiers did not know that there were a dozen of our soldiers left in the ravine They went on tanks with crosses on the armor and began to beat the blocks along the ravine. It's a terrible sound, to hear them squeal, armor-piercing blocks, among the trees, spinning on the frozen snow, knocking everything down. "That's where I was killed in the snow. Me and my comrades were killed. " He "held" the defense, fired a rifle, not knowing that he was holding it. But the Germans are still stumbled, they thied to kill already a dead company. And they lingered, losing hours. In these hours, even minutes, there was our great Victory. And then there was another fight, a shrapnel wound in the head, a bullet broke the grandfather's spine, and when a friend carried him out of the fire, an explosive bullet hit in his shoulder…And then he had painful operations in hospitals. Of course, everyone who fought in the war sees the events of those years in their own way. Memories of Marshal differ from the memories of an infantryman… And in this way, the evidences of every witness and participant of the war are unique. The Marshal did not know, did not feel, what his soldier was doing. That is why the great Marshal Zhukov, often strict in the requirements for officers of any rank, was so attentive to the soldier and asked him a lot on occasion, as if he wanted to learn something…

Lonchakov Mikhail Lavrentevich

THE PLACE OF BIRTH: Nevelskoye village, Lazovsky district, Khabarovsk territory. DATE OF BIRTH: 05.05.1911. DATE OF DEATH: 11.10.1998 HISTORY: Rank: Red Army Soldier, Corps: Technical troops. Unit: 278th Rifle Division (1st formation). My grandfather Lonchakov Mikhail Lavrentievich fought near Moscow in the Kaluga direction. He took the military oath at the 278th Rifle Regiment on September 20, 1941. In 1942, at the end of February, their company was sent to Kaluga. And there something happened that turned the whole fate of the grandfather without leaving a drop of hope for a happy meeting with his family. The company was sent to capture the Germans. There were a lot of Germans but the enemy had been waiting for them for a long time. The Germans came close and began to destroy our soldiers. It is impossible to survive here! Everyone died. There was such a terrible bullet for my grandfather. It was difficult to understand at once, only the shoulder was badly torn. The splinter hit under the left shoulder blade, snatching the meat in small ragged chunks. Grandfather was left lying on the icy, bloody ground, unconscious. All around is silence and only occasionally a shot and German speech. He did not realize at once that it was a healthy German who was addressing him, kicking him. It was difficult but it was necessary to get up, otherwise the Germans killed everyone who was lying down. Seven people in total were among those who remained alive. Holding the prisoners at gunpoint, the Germans surrounded them and led them to the camp. The road to the camp was long, it took two days. German soldiers brought prisoners to a camp that was fenced off with a wire, there were no barracks, no other buildings. Prisoners were allowed to dig dugout shelters. While the Germans did not see (they checked prisoners at the night and forbade any treatment), the comrades made bandages. German soldiers forced prisoners to do various jobs: built roads and bridges , but they forgot to feed prisoners for weeks at a time. And what was given was not allowed to eat. Apparently they did not want to spent the bullets for prisiners, and prisoners were dying a lot. Mikhail Lonchakov often wanted to kill himself, but he still had a hope. The brutality in the camp was shown not so much by the German soldiers as by the policemen. They took off valenki and clothes of prisoners, and my grandfather passed without valenki, wrapping his feet with a piece of tarpaulin and tying them with ropes, for the whole year 1943. Some kind of miracle saved him and his comrades even though they had already lost more than half of them. And from 1944, the Germans selected new workers in the mines. They brought the prisoners to the new camp Maniac-Lavol, in France. Prisoners lived in a barrack here. But the prisoners knew that the Soviet troops were increasingly going on the offensive. The Germans couldn't hide it. The guard was replenished with young men, and the more experienced soldiers were sent to the front. And then, by chance, my grandfather finds out about the upcoming escape, which is being prepared by the French partisans. His new friend from the camp tells him about it. This escape coincided with the new offensive of the Soviet troops, which means that some of the Germans will have to be pushed back to the front again. And here is such a day, or rather night came. Most of the prisoners were awake. Beyond the camp was a gate that had never been used. That night the gates were open, but only 27 people escaped, among them was my grandfather. When they were transferred to the mountain partisan camp, first of all, they were given the opportunity to restore their strength and get stronger. But now came the most exciting day, when the former prisoners took the oath of the Soviet partisans who fought in France. And then there was a solemn presentation of military weapons. My grandfather got an English-style machine gun. From then on, he was listed in the squadron under the name Antony in the detachment commanded by Lieutenant Lagutin from Siberia. There were fighters of different nationalities: Ukrainians, Belarusians, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs....They slept together, ate porridge from the same pot, and stood guard together. Everyone dreamed of their own, but one dream was common – to defeat the enemy and return to their Homeland. One day, partisan intelligence reported that a fascist convoy with infantry would be moving along the highway. The partisans decided to set up an ambush by the roadside. As soon as the first vehicles took the prepared place, machine-gun and rifle fire fell on the column, and grenades flew. In that battle, about a hundred fascists were destroyed, and equipment was disabled. But the partisan forces were smaller. When the Germans were reinforced by about six hundred more soldiers the partisans were forced to leave their positions and go into the forest, which was immediately shelled with guns. My grandfather also visited the ashes of the small town of Oradour, which was burned by the Nazis along with all the inhabitants. It is impossible to forget the death of old people, women, and children...As a harsh sentence, the soldiers of the detachment remembered the words from the partisan oath. The partisan forces grew day by day. They have already boldly entered major operations. In one of them, my grandfather participated in the capture Limoges. It involved underground workers of the city. They transport weapons, ammunition and grenades through German posts. At dawn, the city was surrounded by partisans. When the partisans went on the attack, the fascists sat down in shelters and began to hold the defense. At that moment, grenades were thrown at their heads from the attic windows, and machine-gun fire crackled. It was time to pay for piper for the burned city of Oradour. Once trapped, the enemy was forced to lay down their weapons. Resistance fighters entered the city. And on the occasion of this victory, Lagutin's detachment was awarded of the Orders the Red Banner. My grandfather was awarded of the French medal "For the Capture of Lemoge". My grandfather met the victory in France, when he was on duty. The soldiers were resting, and the radio was loud. Without fear, the whole forest listened to music and reports from the front. And now they announced-VICTORY! Tears stood in the eyes of, that here began! It was May 7! Soon Soviet Consul arrived with General Bogomolov and handed over the flag of France. Soon the detachment became aware of the Japanese attack and decided to go and continue to defend their Homeland. They went to Germany, Berlin. And then the news - the war is over. They stayed near Berlin for a month.

Lyutoy Ivan Sergeevich

PLACE OF BIRTH: Nikolaevka, Novo-Oskol district, Kursk region. DATE of BIRTH: 29.09.1923. DATE of DEATH: 27.09.1981 HISTORY: Rank: Lieutenant. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Lieutenant Lyutoy Ivan Sergeevich served in a Separate Working Battalion as a company commander. He was drafted to the Red Army in October 1941. In the battles for the Soviet Homeland, he was seriously wounded in the stomach. While commanding a mortar platoon that was part of the 239th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 76th Guards Rifle Division, he showed a heroic combat feat in the area of the village of Malinovka, Bolkhovsky district, Oryol region on July 25, 1943. The combat task was to capture Malinovka village, Orel region, then move to the village of Lipovka, capture the highway Mtsensk – Orel and cut off escape routes for Mtsensk group of Germans. Guards Lieutenant I. S. Lyutoy has assumed command of the mortar platoon of the penalty unit and stormed Malinovka village, timely captured the highway Mtsensk-Orel. He completed the combat task with honor. It was destroyed up to 50 German soldiers and officers and served as a complete defeat of the Mtsensk group of Germans. In this battle, Guards Lieutenant Lyutoy Ivan Sergeevich was twice wounded and, despite being seriously wounded, remained in command of the battle. As a result of the injury, he was left as a disabled porson of Group III. He was awarded of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class.